dark comedy,robot,based on short story,grandmother

Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)

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A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!

Cast & Crew

Director
Ladislav Rychman
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    Louda Jiří Lábus
  • Profile picture of Daniela Kolářová
    Loudová Daniela Kolářová
  • Profile picture of Libuše Havelková
    Róza Libuše Havelková
  • Profile picture of Jana Dítětová
    Carmen Jana Dítětová
  • Profile picture of Antonín Hardt
    Antonín Hardt
  • Profile picture of Marie Málková
    Marie Málková
  • Profile picture of Viktor Vrabec
    Viktor Vrabec
  • Profile picture of Jarmila Smejkalová
    Jarmila Smejkalová

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Keywords

  • dark comedy
  • robot
  • based on short story
  • grandmother